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Ludial wrote:
where have I mentioned that I go by the moral guidelines of aikido?

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Then your sensei is an idiot to continue instructing you.

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We have two standards in the SCA. We have a de jure standard: Sufficient force to penetrate 11th Century (with bonus curiboilli) standard. I don't know how much force this actually should be - and frankly I don't care. I have heard "that should would never have penetrated maille" - but I ...

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action picture, I'll try to get a picture of my brand new best friend up over the weekend

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Barbecue is a code word in the Outlands for bad guys in the backfield. Years ago at pennsic I made it into a backfield, thought about it, walked over behind a fully engaged unit, and screamed "Crap, they're behind us" a number of the members of the shield wall stopped, and turned to look ...

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I'll be there, but don't know if I am fighting. I heard the fighting area is depressingly small. ...again. I call it the 'Calontir Postage Stamp'*, and have taken to training for it. CQC with a tetsubo! * - Special delivery! Overnight express! *whack* Just means you don't have to chase someone arou...

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Any number of armorers just started drooling

Icefalcoln & historic enterprises both carry good quality rivited mail

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Baron Alejandro wrote:And Russ? I completely hate you for teasing me with that movie - I can't find it *anywhere*.

here ya go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dym3z2GCY9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZKjxrP947M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgQ68OFNF8Y

I got to see it on a big screen in a polish neighborhood

I guess I'm never leaving new york

My sister in law is Ukranian, I am obligated to root for the cossacks

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hey - after three kids the figure's gonna take some damage

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Baron Alejandro wrote:I like pie.

Two more pages of this and we'll be ripe for wrestling pictures!

meh, why wait ?

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The Archive is a fun place for hundreds of us to dwell. If one person attempts to ruin the fun that JT has provided us by suing the AA then we should all sue that person for ruining our fun. These days a small group of people or a person is allowed to cause huge negative impact on the masses. I am ...

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If there is padding over your mouth you are in a world of hurt when you start serious exertion

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I also don't "ki-ai" in the SCA... just seems - odd. Though I do occasionally yell "LEAVE ME ALONE!! I'm a feeble old man!" . The most dreaded fight with Viscount Edward (when he was active on the field) was when he decided to channel the little old jewish man from the lower eas...

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V cool - this is a board for information Joe Gerard was in the Guinness Book for years as the most productive (car) salesman in the world At one of his talks he made a big point that everyone interacts with about 250 people If he thinks he got a good deal he'll tell about fifty folks If he thinks he...

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Due partially to finances and partially to a desire to stay true to persona once I'm able to get back to fighter practice, I'm very likely to use a 4-5' 2h axe (to represent a fokos, one of the more common weapons my persona would have used). Two questions: 1. I recognize that this'll put me at a r...

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Back in the 80's I was in more of customer contact position than I have been in since My manager insisted on his group going through Joe Girards "How To Sell Anything To Anybody" which is more about how to deal with customers so they turn into repeat customers, and recommend you to people ...

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Fill their shorts with rabid ferrets and set them on fire. Seriously, this has been tested in court already time and time again - Hardly a snowballs' chance in hell it could ever be made to stick unless someone revokes free speech. "OMGz sumbudy sed bad thibgs abot me in teh interwebbs!!1!&quo...

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*palms face* This is the complaint that never ends, yes it goes on on my friends. Somebody posted it not knowing what it was, but Andrew will keep on posting it forever just because... SNARF!!! Now that there is funny I don't care who you are......or it would be if it were not so true You prove my ...

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: ......................... If your sitting in a courtroom proceeding....is any Tom, Dick or Harry allowed to waltz in off the street with some tangential comment? No. So why is it allowed here? Or why is it allowed to to continue as long as it does here? Isnt that why we have moderators? Nothing p...

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I started out with a 55 lb Korean anvil in the 70's. Do your rough work and riveting in one spot near the table, use the rest of the face for finish work or hot work. Last I heard the anvil is happy with it's adopted family (my squire brother) in a barn in california for the price it can do what you...

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English baskethilt IV is enough to make a man think late period doesn't entirely suck

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OK, OK. The John the Novice idea was a bad idea. I will scrap that. Please stop with the PM's. But I seriously, seriously need to get back to basics. And thanks for the advice. I need all the help that I can get. f see if you can find a copy of "The Sweet Spot in Time" by John Jerome - lo...

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One of the first things I learned about dowels is it is easier to use a dowel rod of the right width. Glue the hole, pound in the rod until it is seated and then cut it off flush with a flush cut saw, the move the next. Pre cut dowels are a pain the ass. If you use a rod, you get a flush top and a ...

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Thanks to all
The french guns were enough to help a colleague out with a class she is taking, and I am going to keep digging on gustavus

I did read 1632, but I am sure I remember "my final offer" from earlier than that.

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I remember seeing a comment that Gustavus Adolphus had "My Final Offer" cast on the muzzles of some cannon - I can't find the reference, or the picture.
Anyone know of this, or have a copy of one of the guns?

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rivited or butted?
Thats going to make a huge difference in a lot of answers

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My attitude on fighting in a period style rather than a 'competitive' style came pretty much from a conversation I had with Wulf the mighty. H eas explaining to me the difference between the techniques used with an O-dachi as opposed to a Katana. He said with rattan, he knew I was strong enough to ...

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You buy the bone when you buy the meat - a real harness is heavier than sca sport suits, it's also infinetly cooler, if that doesn't give you an edge you're doing it wrong. One of the high points of a bad pennsic was dragging it back from a battle, passing a youth combat area, and having a kid (in a...

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Ok, maybe something does stink worse than the norseman after all.

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Nothing else comes even close
The Norsemen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Txz7xbl7f4

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From the tomb of Colaccio Beccadelli ca 1340

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Professionally - I probably would be a senior Vice President, or Managing Director, I certainly would have gone on for an MBA Physicaly - my body is beaten up, I don't even want to know what my sixties are going to feel like Socially - If you've done this for long enough you stop having a whole lot ...

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Black Swan Designs wrote:You and the 400 other men who have written asking for a full size, full res version of it.

Lazy sots

click on woolen stocking
click on enlarge

hubba hubba

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I like to think of the flares as crumple zones for the medieval noggin. Indeed AriAnson. Seems to me that the flare had some definate structural or protective reason if it did exist....that is if we are seeing something other than artistic fun. If you rivet a flat top to a straight side the area at...

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Joaquin wrote:
audax wrote:20 naked dancing girls precede me sprinkling flower petals across the list field whilst carrying my armour and perfuming it with their delicate scent....

Can I change my answer to this?

Bernard of Clairveaux would scarcely approve

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I have a beltring that I can carry a broadsword in, it has a couple of short chains with toggles that go through the cuffs of my gauntlets so I can just put them on my belt, when I use a shield it is slung from a gauge, and I usually just carry my helm, or wear it tipped back (Yeah, I'm trying to l...

Re: SCA: Shorter 2h Axes: Any advice?

Just for the heck of it - sales & small business'

Field Guns & My final offer